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Birthing Instincts

#437: What Is The Value Of The Fetal Non Stress Test?

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Blyss and Stu do a deep dive into the methodology, history, and current practices surrounding the non-stress test (NST) used in prenatal care. They answer all your questions: What is a non-stress test? Where did it come from? How did it become so accepted? Does it actually tell you what it's supposed to tell you? And, is there evidence that a previous stillbirth is an indication for for NST testing?


Discussed in This Episode

Understanding Non-Stress Test (NST) and Its Limitations

History and Evolution of NST

NST vs. Biophysical Profiles

Predictive Value of NST

ACOG Guidelines on NST

Fetal Kick Counting vs. NST


Mentioned in this Episode

An Inconvenient Study: aninconvenientstudy.com

ACOG Practice Bulletin: Antepartum Fetal Surveillance

Birthing Instincts Episode #386 with David Hayes


Podcast Produced by: Raquel Hernandez, Pride and Joy Doula Care 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So,

0:20.9

here we go. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good at the middle of the night. Anytime

0:28.7

I hear your laughter, it makes me happy. Oh, good to see you. Good to see you. This is supposed to

0:37.1

to be our Halloween episode.

0:39.0

Gosh, why do we do that?

0:41.2

I don't know, but I think I have a good Halloween story for the Patreon segment.

0:45.5

Okay, great.

0:47.3

Well, I have been busy, but it always seems to sneak up on us these days.

0:52.2

I know.

0:52.7

That it's going to be Halloween already. Holy moly.

0:56.2

Happy Halloween, y'all. Yeah. Happy Halloween. It's not a holiday I do much with. I think it's,

1:04.2

if you don't have kids anymore, it's not much of holiday. Depends. Some people like to dress up.

1:10.5

Those are people that like to go out. That's right. Well, you can dress up. Those are people that like to go out.

1:12.4

That's right. Well, you can dress up at home, but that would not be as much fun.

1:16.4

Speaking of going out, I have a story that I did have to go out last weekend, and I'll tell you about that after I hear about your adventures.

1:23.4

But I did have to go to Los Angeles. I didn't't have to go I wanted to go I was honored to go

1:29.7

to a movie premiere and I'll talk about that in a little bit great well I am still here in

1:36.8

Sedona I've been here a week now yeah and I had a lovely retreat with 15 women, some hospital providers. We had an OB and a couple of a CNN and a nurse and a bunch of doulas and midwives. And we gathered.

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